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Approximately 30 kids who spent the summer learning trades ended the summer part of their program’s curriculum Monday with a tour of the Gadsden County Jail.

They were the first participants in an after-school and summer camp program sponsored in partnership with the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office and the Gadsden chapter of AMIKids Inc., a national organization that on its website says it “gives troubled youth the support they need to become great people, and our results speak for themselves.”

The fence at the Gadsden County Jail is on track to be repaired, as the Gadsden’s Board of County Commissioners voted to award a bid to a company to handle its repair at its July 21 meeting.

Commissioner Eric Hinson asked if there were any Gadsden County companies that could be commissioned for the repair. County Administrator Robert Presnell said of the three companies to bid for the project, none were from the county.

Mike Wade is officially Quincy’s permanent manager, as Quincy commissioners voted to approve his contract for the position at their meeting Tuesday in a 4-1 vote. He had been interim manager for more than a year.

Commissioner Daniel McMillan said Wade will be working for
60 percent of what the last manager earned, and added, “people might not like the way we went about it (the hiring process), but everything we did was
legal.”

After sharpening her chops as an educator and school administrator for 26 years in Central Florida counties, East Gadsden High School’s newest principal decided to come back home.

“It has always been my desire to come back home and work in the county where I got my education, and the opportunity presented itself so here I am,” said Sonya Jackson, a 1982 graduate of Greensboro High School.

A Havana man was killed in Tallahassee on July 15 after breaking into a couple’s home while apparently high on the drug molly.

Jarod Clemons, 27, had come into the Havana Police Department earlier that day complaining that he had taken a bad batch of the drug. HPD Chief Tracy Smith said Clemons was sweating profusely, demanding water and removing his clothing.

A Gadsden County teacher was arrested July 14 for allegedly battering a teenage boy involved in a fight with her daughter.

Nekeshia Harris, 40, of Quincy, has been arrested on a charge of first-
degree battery — which is a misdemeanor — for the alleged incident, which occurred July 2 at West Gadsden High School. Harris was employed at the school for a district summer program. She works at Carter Parramore Academy during the school year.

In a shady cul-de-sac tucked in the county woods between Havana and Quincy lies an animal hospital nursing the types of wild animals many think should be left for dead.

Instead of leaving these sometime scary animals to die in the wild, St. Francis Wildlife Association takes them in, caring for sick, disabled and wounded wild animals like grey-horned owls with broken wings, possums that have been orphaned and tortoises with their shells caved in (a visible sign that they’ve been struck by a car) until they’re able to once again survive in the wild.

At least one nursery in Gadsden County is hoping it will be one of five across the state to be chosen as its region’s medical marijuana producer.

Lawmakers legalized Charlotte’s Web last year. It’s a marijuana strain that doesn’t get you high but will reduce the tumors of cancer patients and the frequency of seizures in epilepsy patients. Over the last year, production of the drug has been in limbo as opponents of its legalization exhausted attempts to prevent its production and subsequent sell.